I’ll answer the latter part first. Because it sucks.

Right, now to the FireWire Networking.

FireWire can be used to network two computers together. But what many people don’t know is the advantages of ZeroConf. Basically, this gives a sort of local domain name. For example, x5315-laptop.local.

But it gets even better than that. You can daisy chain the FireWire nodes together. This is shown in my setup. 

My large PowerBook is the Root Node. From this i have a FireWire cable going to my PowerMac. Then one leaving the PowerMac to the Hackintosh. Then one leaving the Hackintosh to the little PowerBook. What’s even better, is that all of these are transitive. So my little PowerBook can access the services on my large PowerBook. In fact, all Nodes see all the other Nodes.

Transferring files from the little PowerBook to the big PowerBook and from the PowerMac to the big PowerBook get pretty much the same bandwidth.

Of course, all TCP/IP and UDP services work across the network. For example AFP, SSH and VNC. 

Although the bandwidth isn’t as fast as Gigabit ethernet. It’s still fast enough to play a DVD over the network or to move the iPhone SDK around.

Overall, everyone should know about FireWire networking. It’s cheaper than buying switches, and you can use any Mac, some Linux Machines and Windows XP machines.

One of my best finds in a long time.

Although i’ve never used ReiserFS, this guy was a genius.

The evidence used against probably makes perfect sense to him, but a judge didn’t agree.

Wired

*I can say that now.

Woz no longer needs to worry about someone stealing his money. Turns out the Psystar isn’t a scam.

 The thing boots up and runs pretty damn fast, says Patrick, but Software Update won’t recognize it so you won’t be able to patch.

My hackintosh doesn’t seem to have this problem. It can update every time. Even when the update would actually brick it.

Article Here.

It might be illegal, it might not. It might be a scam, it might not. Either way, here’s a video.

Article Here.

I’ve just read an article around AJAX. It’s listing the negative effects on community that the AJAX style technologies have. For example, the fact that old browsers don’t support the javascript required, or people who turn Javascript off because……i don’t know.

Although AJAX can often be pretty, it’s not always a good idea to use it just for the sake of it. I’m talking to you Facebook.

Article Located Here.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away….

I tried Wubi on my old Thinkpad. It works quite well, however i had a few problems with boot loaders crashing and stuff, however it’s very cool, and would give a novice a go at ubuntu.

There’s a cool guide here.